A world-first ban on major social media platforms for children under the age of 16 goes into effect in Australia on Wednesday ...
The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at ...
From 10 December, social media platforms will be legally required to take reasonable steps to restrict under-16s from ...
Australia has officially switched on its world-first ban preventing anyone under 16 from holding a social media account. From ...
Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube and Twitch face fines of up to $32.9 million if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts of Australian ...
Scanning a face to guess its age is likely to be a major part of the “waterfall” of methods used to comply with the social media ban.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Riley Allen, a 15-year-old schoolboy living on an Outback sheep ranch, doesn't know how he'll keep in ...
The playground pressure is real. Kids want phones in Year five. Parents want peace of mind. Safer first-phone SIMs promise ...
Age verification laws are, in some ways, part of a years-long reckoning over child safety online, as tech companies have ...
After months of build-up, the time has finally come. From today, Australians under the age of 16 are banned from having a ...
To cheers in some quarters and wails in others, various countries are making parts of the web off limits to minors. Australia ...